Franck: String Quartet & Piano Quintet - Cristina Ortiz, Fine Arts Quartet

Product Description:

Fine Arts Quartet

Cristina Ortiz and the Fine Arts Quartet again join forces for this recording of Franck’s Piano Quintet.The extraordinary emotional range of this work is unified by the tight thematic relationships typical of the composer’s ‘cyclic’ structuring.

His String Quartet, composed ten years later, is a summit of Franck’s achievement, also cyclically conceived and revealing his admiration of Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Brahms.

"The Fine Arts Quartet… are at their very best in both slow movements, with Christina Ortiz matching their ebb and flow perfectly in the Quintet." BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2009 ****

Tracklisting:

String Quartet in D major

Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 14

Re-order code: CD181782